. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. ad duty of caring for the dead devolved uponthe friends and families of the victims. The remainsof the stonemason, McCulloch, were taken to hishome at Wilton Junction for interment. The bodyof Conductor Westfall was borne to Plattsburgh, inClinton county, where he had provided a comforta-ble home for his wife and three young children, twoboys and a girl. There, on the 17th of July he was ^buried in the presence of a large concourse of peoplefrom Plattsburg and neighboring towns. T
. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. ad duty of caring for the dead devolved uponthe friends and families of the victims. The remainsof the stonemason, McCulloch, were taken to hishome at Wilton Junction for interment. The bodyof Conductor Westfall was borne to Plattsburgh, inClinton county, where he had provided a comforta-ble home for his wife and three young children, twoboys and a girl. There, on the 17th of July he was ^buried in the presence of a large concourse of peoplefrom Plattsburg and neighboring towns. The mur-dered conductor met his fate in the very prime oflife and before completing his thirty-ninth portrait, showing a man at the very pinnacle ofstrength and vigor, has been engraved expressly forthis work from a photograph taken not many monthsl^efore his death. Both the photograph and the fact§ WINSTOXVILLE. 409 of his biography here presented, Avere furnished bvhis family and friends in Plattsburg. William II. Westfall was born on the 8th of Jan-ua y, 1843, in McLean county, Illinois, where his. Wm. h. \\^ST] vj Iearlier years were passed upon a farm. Later, hewas employed as clerk in several neighborhoodstores; and in 1867 he was proprietor of a smallconfectionery at Kidder, in Caldwell county, Mis-souri. In September of that year he married Miss 410 FKANK AND JESSE JAMES. Eliza Sweeney, whose home was in Daviess countynear Gallatin, and at once engaged as brakeman onthe Hannibal & St. Joe railroad. After two yearsservice in that capacity he w^as promoted to the posi-tion of conductor, which he retained until 1878,when he was employed for a few months as conduc-tor on the Central Branch of the Union Pacific. Itwas in March 1879 that he entered the service of theChicago, Rock Island & Pacific road, w^here heremained until the time of his death. He was amember of the Conductors Union and also of theAncient Order of United Workingmen, so that hisfamily was not left
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